Recumbent Bicycle
As you can see from this story, recumbent bicycles are not a new phenomenon.
Bicycle With A Low Frame Is Easy To Propel (original article)
Dec 082010
Nov 302010
Velodyne
This article describes an early French attempt to streamline a bicycle, named Velodyne No. 1.
Streamline Hood On Bicycle Increases Speed (original article)
Folding Bicycle
This short news item describes a bicycle which folds neatly into a suitcase. I could not learn anything more about this bike, but this design surely proceeded most, if not all, small wheeled folding bicycles.
Bicycle Folds Into Suitcase And Weighs Few Pounds (original article)
Oars Bicycle
Interesting German made exercise bicycle powered by “oars” and steered with feet.
Bicycle Propelled By “Oars” Gives Helpful Exercise (original article)
Riotte Kerosene Bicycle
This short article describes C. C. Riotte’s small engine powered bicycle, I guess one could call it one of the earliest ancestors of motorcycle. C.C. Riotte was a giant among the early engine designer-builder generation and was responsible for many innovations.
The Riotte Kerosene Bicycle (original article)
Oct 132010
Wooden Bicycle
In 1922 this wooden frame bicycle was thirty years old. This bicycle weighed tens pounds less than the typical steel bike of its era.
Thirty-Year Old Bicycle With Wooden Frame (original article)
Renovo Bicycles (modern wooden bicycles)
Sidecar
Here is an idea for a simple bicycle sidecar. You might use it as a starting point for your own design.
Bicycle Sidecar For Bundles Is Simple And Inexpensive
Sep 262010
Bicycle
Bicycle This is a patented bicycle propulsion drive with the transmission gear behind the real wheel. “The bicycle rider has the satisfaction of keeping the dirty grease of the chain and the sprocket-wheel far in the rear. The device provides different speeds, and can be adopted to drive other mechanisms than that of a bicycle.” More Speed from the Pedals of Your Bicycle
More Speed from the Pedals of Your Bicycle
Ride a Bicycle Ad
Here is an advertisement by Cycle Trades of America from June 1920 Popular Science. What is Happiness? Answer – Ride a Bicycle.
